Making charts and graphs

- Let's talk about making charts and graphs from…your data. Google Sheets can do this, of course,…but the process is pretty different in Excel,…so it's worth exploring.…First you're going to need some data that can be graphed.…I've got a spreadsheet here that will work pretty well…for us. Now the type of graph that you make will…depend on the type of data that you have.…This data will work well for a bar graph or…a line graph, but your data may work better for…a pie chart. So you can start by selecting a…specific range of data. I might just click on…one row and then I can chart just that row.…

Or you could just start with all of the data in…your spreadsheet knowing that you can make…adjustments later. So I'm not going to select…any particular range, I'm just going to click on…any cell within this spreadsheet.…Next I'm going to go to the insert ribbon,…and I want to make a chart.…So there's a section here for options for making charts.…You can see there are a bunch of different buttons…for the different types of graphs or charts…

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4/13/2015

This course will help Google Apps users transition effectively and efficiently to Microsoft Office. Author Nick Brazzi shows how to convert and migrate docs, email, spreadsheets, and other files from Google to Office, and explores the features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint so that those familiar with Google's apps can be immediately productive on the new platform. He also covers Outlook, the Microsoft solution for managing email, calendar, and contacts, and online storage options that work well with Office, such as Dropbox.